an anecdote           
                                          
 today it  rained, and i would go outside 
 i thought, so  i  smoked a  pipe and got 
 dressed,  and  outside   the  rain   had 
 turned  into  snow so thick that it  was 
 as  dense fog ... and then i went to get 
 the mail, but there was a woman  and  we 
 talked a little. now because i was  high 
 and it was snowing  so funny  and  i had 
 an umbrella against the  snow, but  snow 
 all over my  face anyway, and i wondered 
        about myself, and my life